jul 1, 1898 - Hawaii annexed (July 1898)

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Events in Philippines → focus attention on Hawaii; Ppl think that US needs Hawaii as coaling and provisioning way station to send supplies & reinforcements to Dewey; McKinley worried that Japan might take Hawaiian islands while US was distracted; Joint resolution of annexation rushed through Congress, approved by McKinley (July 7 1898); Grated Hawaiian residents US citizenship, got full territorial status in 1900;

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